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TEPCO restarts Kashiwazaki Kariwa Unit 6
Earlier today, TEPCO announced that after nearly 15 years, Unit 6 at the Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power station has been restarted. Following approval from Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), TEPCO withdrew the reactor’s control rods to initiate startup at 7:02 p.m. local time.
Next, the company will work with the NRA to confirm the safe operation of the plant. “We will carefully verify the integrity of each and every plant facility while suitably addressing any issues that arise and conveying information to the public during each step of the startup process,” TEPCO’s statement said.
R. E. Nygren
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 61 | Number 1 | January 2012 | Pages 52-57
Fusion | Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A13396
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This paper presents examples from work in developing the technology needed for fusion. The purpose is to illustrate how our research ranges from very basic investigations to more directed applications. The paper draws primarily from work by others on the critical goals of extracting heat in a useful way from a fusion reactor and producing and handling tritium as a self-sufficient fuel.
